South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933

The London critics who gave Alfred Ridyard, the Cudworth youth whom West Bromwich Albion secured from Barnsley, a somewhat mixed “press” on his recent appearance against the Arsenal (some giving him high praise and others none at all), would have no idea that he was playing under the shadow of serious domestic trouble. his father being gravely ill at the time. “Old Throstle.” writing in the club’s programme for that particular match, says “Ridyard certainly fulfilled his mission of holding Lambert in check. Before the game he was told that was his particular job.

Many times he used his height and his long legs in most effective fashion and once he cleared off the goal line when Pearson had been temped out and he alone stood between the Arsenal and a score. Even after colliding with Jack, which must have shaken him up considerably, he showed no falling off in the quality of his work.” They certainly seem well satisfied with the big Cudworth lad down at the Hawthornes.